Want Help Making Your Presentation?

Suggestions 

If you have a topic you wish to share with the group, but are unsure of where to click to start and end, here are some suggestions on getting it done.  You can practice with someone else by creating your own (free) zoom account and have a "meeting" for up to 40 minutes and 100 people. (Paid accounts can go all day.).   Using the free account for holding your own zoom meetings is limited only by the time - if you don't mind restarting your meeting every 40 minutes and have people rejoin, free is a good option. Note that if the owner of the meeting allows it, you don't have to log in to your zoom account to join the meeting, or identify yourself in any way (although the "name tag" is helpful so we know what name to call you).

One option is to send a file to someone who is more comfortable starting and ending a video, or switch from one slide to the next. If it's just a YouTube or Vimeo video, all you need to do is let us know the link and one of the group will play it for the presentation.  If it's a local file that won't go by email, some file transfer options are listed below that will "send" files of any size.

Whenever possible connect your device by Ethernet (hardwired connection) for the most stable zoom session (and other meeting options).   Preferably put your table or phone sideways (landscape) to reduce the black spaces to the left and right of your picture.  Your camera ideally should be at your normal eye level -- put a stable box on the desk if necessary to raise it (nothing wobbly!).

Sharing Your Desktop

Anything on your computer, or your smartphone, can be "shared" with the participants on a zoom call. Here is a video that tells you how (on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMDxH_H_Cs  ):

Sending Large Files

For free, there are many options, and you do not need to sign up nor create an account to use these services. Enter your email, the recipient's email, and upload your file (or drag it to the appropriate part of the window) -- the recipient will download the file by clicking on a link. These files can be up to 2 gigabytes in size, some services allow larger files.

1. TransferNow: https://www.transfernow.net/en/
2. Pcloud Transfer: https://transfer.pcloud.com/ 
3. WeTransfer https://wetransfer.com/

There are many others, and none of them should require you to create an account. Generally you put in your email to get notifications of success when someone has received the file.   Generally there is no need to send large files to everyone.

Help Is Available

Speak up at the next meeting and ask. If you have a questions it's probably something others have already faced down and answered. So they will be glad to share their learning with you. Also, keep an eye on both Jenks Center and Library online learning opportunities as they come up.  Zoom's help pages are actually very good, plus "google is your friend": you can ask it "how do I ..." almost anything as long as it's legal.